3Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye come to enquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. …
This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. …
He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)Here is, 1. The occasion of the message which we have in this chapter. That sermon which we had Ezek. 18:1-32 was occasioned by their presumptuous reflections upon God; this was occasioned by their hypocritical enquiries after him. Each shall have his own. This prophecy is exactly dated, in the seventh year of the captivity, about two years after Ezekiel began to prophesy. God would have them to k…
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